From help-request at octave dot org Sat Apr  1 06:22:55 2006
Subject: Re: Multiple, Assignments
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: Muthiah Annamalai <muthus_post at yahoo dot com>
Cc: octave help <help at octave dot org>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:21:19 -0500

Octave/matlab does this using the deal() function:

   octave:1> [x,y]=deal(1,2)
   x = 1
   y = 2

- Paul

On Apr 1, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:

> Can you please tell me, how to do multiple assignments in one 
> statements?
>  Its like the one in Python,
>  a,b = 1,2;
>
>  I know you can do it like this in Octave,
>
>   a=1,b=2
>
>  But is there any other tricks I dont know? Please share your ideas.
>
>  Cheers
>  Muthu
>
>
>
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